Chris Bryant, Columnist

Airbus's Cash Squeeze

October 26, 2016 at 9:01 AM UTC

Chris Bryant is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering industrial companies in Europe. Previously, he was a reporter for the Financial Times.

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Tesla Motors Inc. gets a lot of flak for burning through prodigious amounts of investors' cash. But you don't have to be doing something revolutionary to do that. Look at Airbus.

The plane-maker's net cash fell by almost half to 5.6 billion euros ($6.1 billion) at the end of September from 10 billion euros at the end of 2015. The decline is partly due to production problems ranging from engines not being ready to missing toilets.